Overview
- Description
- Jean Beller's memoir describes Jean's childhood and adolescence in Poland; her experiences as a student of elementary education in Tel Aviv, Palestine; her return to Poland before the outbreak of World War II; conditions inside the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her experiences with Chaim Rumkowski; her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage in the ghetto; her attempts to hide when the ghetto was evacuated; the death of her parents and a brother; her deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps; and her life in the United States after the war.
- Date
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1963
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, gift of Bernard, Roseanne and Sheila Beller
- Collection Creator
- Jean Beller
- Biography
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Jean Beller (née Genia Bryl, d. 10 Oct. 1993) was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. During the Holocaust she was a prisoner at Auschwtiz. Jean immigrated to the United States in 1947.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Poland--Łódź. Education, Elementary. Kindergarten. Jewish orphans. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish women in the Holocaust--Biography. Teachers. Hiding places. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
- Geographic Name
- Palestine.
- Personal Name
- Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim. Beller, Jean.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Jean Beller began writing her memoir in Feb. 1958, and she completed writing it in July 1963. Sheila Beller, Jean's daughter, sent the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum a copy of the memoir in Jan. 1994.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:01:25
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504244
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